Principally
ecclesiastical records relating to the administration of the numerous parishes
and chapels of the Russian Orthodox Church in Alaska, and, to a lesser extent,
in Canada and the United States, comprising correspondence, registers of
births, marriages, and deaths, confession and communion records, a clergy
dossier, orders and edicts (ukases) from imperial and ecclesiastical
authorities, financial records, diaries and travel journals, photographs,
printed matter, and other material. Includes material relating to missionary
work among the Tlingit Indians; Russian administration of Alaska through the
bureaucracy of the church; schools and education; the Russian-American Company;
and papers of various church officials, including Tikhon Bellavin, Evdokim
Meshcherskii, and John S. Kedrovsky.